Warning: This podcast contains spoilers about the first two episodes of Prime Video’s The Peripheral After deconstructing the sideways aftermath of artificial intelligence in HBO’s Westworld, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan take on another facet of dystopian future again in the series adaptation of the William Gibson novel The Peripheral.
However, we’re in a whole brave new world now in this story of a Marine veteran (Jack Reynor) and his ace VR game playing sister, Flynne (Chloe Grace Moretz).
They live with their dying mother in the Blue Ridge Mountains of 2032 and in an effort to handle her mushrooming medical bills, the duo make extra cash playing simulations (Sims).
Burton gets the chance to beta test a new Sim, however, it’s Flynne who ends up playing his avatar. She’s catapulted out of her rural town into the futuristic London town 2099 where she’s breaking into a corporation known as the Research Institute—to steal a valuable secret.
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